Quotes About Ethics

BewareAt war Or at peace, More people die Of unenlightened self-interestThan of any other disease

Sustainability before ambition. Okal Rel.

Well what would you expect?" she sputtered. "They can call themselves privateers, but we all know they're just pirates with papers.

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

We don't want our politicians bending to the whims of whichever corporation has the money to pay them off.

The problem with heroes and villains is that it's not always easy to tell which is which. Particularly when you are one.

Humans are, as Sartre put it, 'condemned to be free'. To insist that science, or God, objectively defines moral values is to abandon our responsibility as human beings to make such judgments.

Placing religious beliefs above law is a great recipe for destruction of entire human race.

Engineering is not only study of 45 subjects but it is moral studies of intellectual life.

In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.

People have been murdered over cartoons. End of moral analysis.

The means and the results, the good and the bad, are within all of us who are aware and care.

Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It's time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.

People blame science. Shit, man, people shouldn't blame science. People should blame people.

Very few of the common people realize that the political and legal systems have been corrupted by decades of corporate lobbying.

It is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons

Futurists and common sense concur that a substantial change, worldwide, in life-style and moral guidelines will soon become an absolute necessity.

If the human race wants to go to Hell in a basket technology can help it get there by jet.

Whenever science makes a discovery the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.

Though many have tried no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science which can do so much cannot decide what it ought to do.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.

Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime.

I just can't smile at people for money.